http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/ My gardening journal began in December 1997. In the beginning the entries are a bit erratic but by mid 1999 I was dutifully recording every gardening moment. There are photographs throughout the journal to stop it getting too boring. en-us Copyright 1997-2007 Eggyweb Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:28 -0800 http://backend.userland.com/rss eggy@mooseyscountrygarden.com http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091109.html Today I start pulling out the forget-me-nots in the Driveway Borders. But what about my half-hardy gap-fillers - all those daisies and pelargoniums that I've been growing from cuttings? They're all finger-sized. Hurry up, you lot... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:59:32 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091109.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091108.html The good life of the Head Gardener is full of simple things - like windless rain in the night (good for the Moosey Garden) and going swimming (good for the Moosey cardiovascular system) and playing Bach on the piano (good for the Moosey soul). Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:21:18 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091108.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091107.html Wow. A new week - I can't remember the garden ever looking so good. Out come more and more roses, accompanied by the descriptors 'beautiful', 'extremely beautiful', 'incredibly beautiful', and the more colloquial 'oh so very beautiful'. It's rose time! Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:46:44 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091107.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091106.html If the Head Gardener puts up a whole web-page with just one day's gardening news on it, then that must mean she does heaps of work, and has oodles of amazingly interesting things to talk about. Forget the phrase 'less is more'... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:22:30 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091106.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091105.html Oh dear, dear, dear me. I have eleven clumps of (free) Agapanthus to dig out. So more Agapanthus plants are coming to be planted in the Moosey country garden. And none of my gardening friends will understand why. It's so obvious to me, as a compulsive recycler. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:02:40 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091105.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091104.html What a weekend! Three monster Cabbage trees dug up from another garden, driven across town, and planted on the far edge of the Frisbee Lawn. This morning Non-Gardening Partner and myself are off to pick up a wooden garden bench - another one! Gardens need lots of benches... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:27:04 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091104.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091103.html I am not a boring, predictable person! Today I do things in a different order - piano first, then breakfast, then gardening. I might even finish my digging project later this afternoon, when the sun has sunk a bit. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:09:58 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091103.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091102.html Hee hee hee. Checking first with Non-gardening Partner (whose response was typically mannish - do I really want more of those?) I have 'bought' three monster Cordylines for one dollar. He will help me dig them out this weekend. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:17:32 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091102.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091101.html Hello, November - the New, Now, Never-Mind-About-the-Weeds gardening month. For this is the month when summer rolls in, the sun shines down, and everything in the garden grows - and grows - and grows... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:49:09 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/summer-garden-journal-091101.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091011.html So yesterday the hedge trimmer spent four hours on the Moosey property. Today the Head Gardener starts four days - or is that four weeks? - cleaning up the mess. Stand by for some extremely boring gardening journal writing! Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:58:52 -0700 http://garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091011.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091010.html Yippee - I love my garden! What shall I do first? Weeding, or weeding, or weeding? I'd much rather be planting - I've got several shrubs and a Skunk Cabbage to find places for. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:33:45 -0700 http://garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091010.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091008.html Right. The shaping up of the Head Gardener - and the Moosey Garden - continues, as October zooms past. And the spring garden looks even more beautiful than ever. The Head Gardener is to be warmly congratulated... Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:19:14 -0700 http://garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091008.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091009.html It's the weekend of the vegetable garden. Alas, the wood to raise the sides is too heavy to be person-carried into place, but vegetable plants and seeds can certainly get planted! My English Lavender edge rows are growing well... Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:41:40 -0700 http://garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091009.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091007.html I've woken up filled with new personal resolutions rather than gardening thoughts - blast! It's time for seriously pruning and trimming the Head Gardener and getting her into a healthier shape. Hopefully that's all I'll say on the matter. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:55:08 -0700 http://garden-journal-09/spring-garden-journal-091007.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-96/garden-journal-1997-1-.html I am rationalising my Dahlias. Colour groups are as follows: lemons, yellows, brick reds, magentas, mid-reds, bluey-reds, soft oranges, lilacs. All soft orange and lemon Dahlias are to go in the Jelly Bean Border near the Graham Thomas roses... Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:17:59 -0700 http://garden-journal-96/garden-journal-1997-1-.html